It was a trail of blood after a double shooting that led police to an alleged illegal cannabis operation in East Vancouver in September 2023.

Now two property owners have been ordered to show how they acquired funds to buy three B.C. homes after declaring "minimal" taxable income for nearly two decades.

The B.C. Supreme Court has issued what the B.C. government says is Canada's first ever unexplained wealth order against the pair whose assets came under scrutiny after two people were shot, one fatally, in East Vancouver in September 2023.

British Columbia's Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger said Friday she was pleased the court issued the landmark order in the civil forfeiture case in Victoria on Thursday.

Krieger said in a statement that unexplained wealth orders required that targe

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